A new key biodiversity platform for cross sectoral collaboration
For its inaugural launch, World Biodiversity Summit will help define what world leaders and the private sector in biodiversity and climate action need to do in the medium and long term to achieve sustainable development and hinder further biodiversity loss, focusing on partnerships and investment mechanisms as levers of progress. World Biodiversity Summit is a platform for responding to accelerating biodiversity loss, by using the Paris Agreement as a framework to learn from, promoting relevant solutions, innovations, and leadership networks, strengthening nature restoration and conservation. Nature-based solutions will be highlighted, from specificecosystems to global possibilities.
First year tracking of the Danish pension fund commitment towards USD50 billion in green investments by 2030
Insurance & Pension Denmark CEO, Ken Damsgaard reported that Danish pension funds have invested $8 billion in green projects since the 2019 Climate Action Summit in New York. This far exceeds earlier expectations and could lead to Danish pension funds reaching their $50 billion green investment target three years ahead of schedule.
Climate Investment Summit 2021 is a leading summit aimed at increasing investments in climate and green recovery
- built on the experience of practitioners, best practice business models and cross-sector collaboration.
Key focus areas in 2021
Investment Roadmap to COP26
Engage with governments, investors, business and civil society to mobilise climate finance and solutions in green investments to reach 2030 climate targets and support the net-zero transition.
Where institutional investors choose to invest now will have vast consequences for achieving the Paris Agreement and the SDGs. That’s why I welcome the efforts of the Climate Investment Coalition and the pledge from the Danish pension funds in 2019 to invest USD 50 billion in climate solutions before 2030, of which USD 8 billion have already been invested.
- Amina J. Mohammed, Deputy Secretary-General, United Nations
Objectives
Discuss global opportunities in climate investments
Highlight enabling framework conditions
Influence the international financiall agenda
Showcase proven business models & financing vehicles
Present a framework for tracking green investments
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The challenges of climate change are to be recognized as this generation’s moon landing – if not even more comprehensive. We need to prove that the green transition is also a sustainable business case so that many other countries realize the need for a different scale of private investments in sustainable development. That fact obligates large private investors like us to spearhead the efforts for green transition – not only in Denmark, but through investments in Europe and rest of the world.
Torben Möger Pedersen, CEO of PensionDanmark, Vice-chair of IIGCC and chair of the The financial sector's climate partnership
Who Will You Meet
The Summit will gather leading international stakeholders and decision-makers such as:
Format
Presentations & panel discussions
Workshops & interactive dialogues
High-level keynote presentations
Interactive & one-on-one networking opportunities
